
Chris Simms
16 Octuber 1969
21 works on record
Biography
Chris Simms has worked in airports, nightclubs, post offices and telesales centres. Along with nominations for Crime Writers’ Association Daggers and the Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year award, Chris was selected by Waterstones as one of their ’25 authors for the future’.
The idea for his debut novel, <a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7916209W" target="_blank">***Outside the White Lines***</a>, came to him in the early hours of the morning while broken down on the hard shoulder of the M40.
His series of DI Spicer novels – psychological thrillers set very firmly in Manchester – follow the police detective’s fortunes as he pursues mad, bad and deadly individuals through the city’s ever-changing landscape.
More recently, he has launched a new series featuring DC Sean Blake – an inexperienced young detective fighting to establish himself in the close-knit Serious Crimes Unit of Manchester’s police.
Chris says he is drawn to books that give insights into unusual minds. The twisted desires of Frederick in John Fowles’, <a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15008W" target="_blank">***The Collector***</a>; the tormented thoughts of Scobie in Graham Greene’s <a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL106077W" target="_blank">***The Heart of the Matter***</a>; the violent urges of Francie in Patrick McCabe’s <a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL78693W" target="_blank">***The Butcher Boy***</a> are all books Chris states had an influence in shaping him as a writer.
(<a href="https://thecwa.co.uk/find-an-author/simms-chris/" target="_blank">Source</a>)
Works

Hell's fire

A Price to Pay

Scratch Deeper

Cut adrift

Loose Tongues

Marked Men

Savage Moon

The edge

Many Deadly Returns
CWA Anthology of Short Stories
CWA Anthology of Short Stories
Pecking Order Proof
Pecking Order Proof
The Starlings and Other Stories
The Starlings and Other Stories
Outside White Lines/Pecking Poste
Outside White Lines/Pecking Poste
Death Games
Death Games
Ink and Daggers
Ink and Daggers
Rats' Nest
Rats' Nest
Sing Me to Sleep
Sing Me to Sleep

Killing the Beasts~Chris Simms

Shifting Skin (Detective Jon Spicer Thrillers)

Outside the White Lines Signed

Pecking Order